45G ^Ir. F. E. Reddard on 



Chionaspis citn, Corastock. 



Rio (To Janeiro, on leaves and stems of orange {Moreira). 

 New to Brazil. 



rinnaspis pandani (Comstock). 



Rio de Janeiro, on Arecn cntcchu ; a ratlier large red form 

 {GoMi). Also on Areca hifescois. 



New to Bnizil. (This and the lust have evidently been 

 introdueed with plants.) 



Pseudacjiidia trilohitiformis (Green). 



Rio do Janeiro, on leaves of Ficus scandens in cultivation 

 {(Jdhli). 



An introduced species, native of the East Indies. 



East Las Vegas, New Mexico, U.S.A., 

 April 2o, 1902. 



LXXIV. — On Two new Eartliwm-ms of the Ftnnilt/ Mega- 

 scolieida\ By FRA^'K E. Beddard, E.U.S. 



The ))resent communication contains a description of two 

 Acaiitbodriloid earthworms which 1 believe represent new 

 species of their respective genera, viz. Ocluchatus and Ben- 

 hamia. 



(1) OctochcBtus Beatrix, sp. n. 



I refer the single specimen of this worm in my possession 

 to the genus Octochcetus* by reason of the two pairs of 

 spermiducal glands in segments xvii and xix, the diffuse 

 rephridia, the single gizzard, and tiie eight seta3 in each 

 segment. But it is clearly a new species, though not very 

 widely removed in its structure from a species recently 

 desciibed from the same quarter of the world by MissFedarbf. 



The worm, whieh is fully mature, measures 70 millim. 

 in length, but is evidently rather contracted. The diameter 

 is 4 millim. at most. The pigment of the skin, if any, has 



• This genus was fountltd by niy.^elf (Proc. Zoo). Soc. 1892, p. 668) 

 for four ppecies of earlliworms (lately reduced by Dr. Micbaelsen, in ' Das 

 Tbicrreich,'LiLf. 10, 01i<.'ocba?ta, lUc'O, p. 319, to three) from New Zealand. 

 I cannot holji ri.t -eing vith Micliaelson (Zdol. Jalnbiiclier, xii. Abtb. f. 

 fSyst. p. 242) that Miss Fcdarb's Iknhamia Aitkcni must go into the .*ame 

 genus. 



t Jouni. Bomb. Soc. xi. 1898, p. 432. 



